| John Bell - 1777 - 644 Seiten
...devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded hut desert. 5(5o Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties, hut could ne'er he chief : For,... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 674 Seiten
...devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded — but desert : Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For,... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 662 Seiten
...devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded — but desert : Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For,... | |
| 1801 - 416 Seiten
...Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming...could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of bus'ness fell On Absalom and wise Achithophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 382 Seiten
...devil. Ill squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert: Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from Court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 Seiten
...squand'ring wealth was his peculiar ait, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar1 d by fools, when still he found, too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate." J * In the Epistle to Lord Bathurst. * [In a lampoon ascribed to Dryden, the writer says: " His grace... | |
| John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 Seiten
...or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went uurewarded, hut desert: Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He langh'd himself from Court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite... | |
| Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809 - 344 Seiten
...or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art} Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate : He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite... | |
| Thomas Faulkner - 1810 - 514 Seiten
...squandering wealth, was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by fools, when still he found, too late He had his jest, and they had his estate." Pope, in " The Epistle to Lord Bathurst," thus alt ludes to his death : " In the worst inn's worst... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 Seiten
...or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late : He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For,... | |
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